Book ID: CBB000066657

The crest of the peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics (1991)

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Joseph, George Gheverghese (Author)


Tauris


Publication Date: 1991
Physical Details: xv + 368 pp.; bibl.; index

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Review Swetz, F.J. (1992) Review of "The crest of the peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics". American Mathematical Monthly (pp. 692-94). unapi

Review Katz, V.J. (1992) Review of "The crest of the peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics". Historia Mathematica (pp. 310-15). unapi

Review Rotman, B. (1991 (Nov. 15)) Review of "The crest of the peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics". TLS: Times Literary Supplement (p. 32). unapi

Review Pingree, D. (1993) Review of "The crest of the peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 548-49). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dauben, Joseph Warren
Joseph, George Gheverghese
Assayag, Gérard
Derbyshire, John
Elliott, Paul A.
Feichtinger, Hans Georg
Journals
Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Historia Mathematica
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Birkhäuser
Academic Press
Harvard University Press
I. B. Tauris
Joseph Henry Press
Sage Publications
Concepts
Mathematics
Astronomy
Trigonometry
India, civilization and culture
Bibliographies
Set theory
People
Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig
Bennet, Abraham
Birkhoff, George David
Boole, George
Cayley, Arthur
Darwin, Erasmus
Time Periods
19th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
India
Institutions
Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics (India)
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